Translating Classical Poetry into Modern Prose

arXiv cs.CL · 6 hours ago

Researchers created Padyam2Gadyam, a dataset of 600 Telugu classical poems from the 13th-17th centuries paired with human-verified prose translations in Telugu and English. They benchmarked 2 machine translation systems and 5 large language models on poem-to-prose translation, finding LLMs outperformed traditional machine translation but both approaches showed systematic generation and evaluation problems. The dataset enables future work on translating classical poetry into modern prose across languages.